It’s the time of the year to write some recaps. I did this last year and the year before and I will continue that. We live in highly technologized world, but what’s it all about if not people? That picture was taken by Stephen Chin at the last day of JCrete 2017 and pretty much […]
I wanted to start publishing to GitHub Pages from my learning and experimenting project simple-meetup. One of the learning scopes of the above project is “code as documentation” and the question to which extend such a project can be used to write articles and generate documentation. In this project I’m using Asciidoctor and the Gradle […]
November has been a crazy month. Even though I joined Ralf in his Movember team and grew a mustache, I visited the JUG Münster at LVM Münster and gave my talk about SQL once again in a slightly updated version: It felt very good being part of innoQ on this occasion. Also very nice was […]
Available since Java 1.5 is the nice helper class EnumSet and I still find code like this way to often: public class Foo { enum Thing { A, B, C } public static final Set<Thing> THINGS = new HashSet<>(); static { THINGS.add(Thing.A); THINGS.add(Thing.B); THINGS.add(Thing.C); } }public class Foo { enum Thing { A, B, […]
This post has been featured on This Week in Spring – November 28th, 2017. Lately I have been preparing a small project called simple-meetup that I plan to use for different purposes. You’ll find the repository at GitHub: github.com/michael-simons/simple-meetup. It’s the first project where I used Gradle very intensive and I like my build file […]